BMH wrote:
Hello Everyone, Just curious about how everyone sets up their bike for race day. Do you go out loaded with water bottles? Do you only go out with one and then replenish as you go to save weight? How/where do you carry food? Change saddle positioning? Etc.
What distance race?
For training, I have a BTA bottle and one on the downtube. On race day I remove the bottle and cage from the down tube for the aero savings, but keep the BTA bottle. If it is a 70.3 or longer, I add a second bottle behind the seat.
Other than that, I throw on my race wheels and give the chain/drivetrain a good cleaning and lube.
I would think that it would be a really silly idea to change the saddle or anything else for race day.
ETA: as far as your question about where people carry food: I carry gels in my kit and run a dilute infinit in the BTA bottle. For longer races, I keep a concentrated version of infinit in the bottle behind the seat. When I pass an aid station, I squirt a little bit of the concentrate into the BTA and then fill the rest of the way up with water.
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davejustdave: Feb 26, 18 9:23